The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-05 00:00:00

VAR DOCTOR what do you noviee ? 1 I:vuza,dvise Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards to one o•:: Cov ent - zarden, hear some charming singing', order i s „ e _ bmen est advictae . canil ch0.., - 8 and magnificent potatoes, and that I can give you: LL WHISKY v. r COGNAC Ffi',NCR BRANDY This eek b rated Old IRISH BRANDY. WHISKY rivals the finest ,It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. the in. Bottlesas. Bd., t townseai Houses in London ;by at Agents in the principa a l e in England ;or wholesale 0:' GREA T WINDMILL -STREET, LONDON, W. koxii,..usaehrvaen,tBhLeLßwtedisSkeva.l,,, Pink Label, and Cork branded T HE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES' S • STREET. (for r In addition to the Pining Room on the Ground Floor Ladig ntieni en ihe SaloOn Dining Rooms are open for T he and Parties, Daily, from One o'clo k. X 1: 8 Lira li cToN Three Shilling Dinner of Soup, Fisli frora's"tioZ3Jooint, Sweet, & c , f rom 3t o 9 p .m . On Sundays Pir Order of the London and Paris Hotel Co. (limited). Me Weill N 4 JOHN CATES, Manager. Lathe,' -n.am ntrance, 160, Piccadilly. Entrance, 53, St. James's-street. 4 / WERAL 0 G Y.—KING'S COLLEGE, p4rsoefe,ssor TENNANT' LONDON. F.G.S , will give, during the ensu -11A.1,Z,n, TWO COURSES OF LECTURES ON MlNE and Y. Nvi h a "few to facilita' e the study of GEOLOGY, On e C applicati' nof on Mineral Subs!ances in the ARTS. 9, 1„ ? l ine will be given Wednesday Evenings, from Bto Cour' ginn ing Oct. 12. Fe £l 11s. 6d. A more extended he m be given on Wednesday and Friday Mornings, 0 , beginning Friday, October 7. Fee, £2 2s. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. ESTABLISHED 1837. t ItI T ANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE Era COM PANY. PoW ered by special Act of Parliament 4 Viet., cap. 9. Eve,.„ 1 , Princes-street, Bank, London. at th e y u escription of Life Assurance business transacted owest rates of Pre ium consi•tent with security. Pan tarieus Tables, some of whic are peculiar to this Com ore ave been studiously adapted to the requirements of rY class of Assurers. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. A.D. . ,ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION Mitablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. Sir ;Tons HENRY PELLY, Bart., Sub-Governor. 0. 4318 STEWART HODGSON, Esq., Deputy-Governor. b il _ e n, r B _ainbridge, Esq. DIRECTORS. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' 3‘ 0 0 ,9_ t Barclay, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq._ s traGarratt Cattlev, Esq. Geo. F. Malcoms . on, - 1 cl xdv. Currie Close, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Willi James Daniell, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Th o a nt Davidson Esq. Hon. Josceline W. Percy. .11.14 14 bent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.:_ s pr edi a c nler Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, .N.:_q. q Ch ar , ea. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith,_Ea • itivevBl-1 (ioschen, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. toodaleW. Grenfell Esq William Wallace, Esok t• Araadeus Heath, 'Esq.. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. .... Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. °T IP le IR " "-.• — The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Oh 14th Oet E P o l b l e l r l..! MS falling due at Aim • haelmai will expire „Plltp vOr a nd LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this "oration on advantageous terms. Of aAsItIIIN-STOCK.—No e <tra charge is made for the use _.. team Thrashing Machine. 1 ., 4 - 4'al, Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave r.' early 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Daigvalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Th e persons who preferred that form of Bonus. .A 7 divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Lif e ll . 3 ' allni not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Thi s .. Liberal Corporation affords to the Assured— Participation in Profits—with exemption from Assured— the l iabilities of partnership. „ A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual oocieties— Stock with the guarantee of a large invested Capital ofirhe advantages of modern practice,—with the security pe ati ° Mee whose resources have been tested by the ex rienCe of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. _. ROBT. 1". STEELE, Secretary. Al it 14 Y CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Ist , 1864. O'cle e k -. RS Will be rece i ve d a t this October Office until Twelve Who ,on FRIAY, he 28th October, from persons b — aY be willing, to entert into Contracts to supply -I"4.ILLA.SSE STRAW and ST RAW for ROYAL I, ENGINEER SERVICE, fr e t - h quantiti es as may be required, for Twelve Months , us e of e Ist December, stationed 30th November, 1865, for the wi,.,,nher Majesty's Forces at Aldershot Camp, and the command. ta• t j e r ,,ros of Tender, and Conditions of Contract, may be ob- Se im ,' on application at this Office, by letter addressed to the Of i o ' r Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours I,olld 4 o'clock. !er e ,' Tenders must be properly filled u p , s i gne d , and deli outsr,,.at, this Office (under closed envelnp e , mar k ed on the 'Tender for Straw"), and no Tender will b e no ti ce d d r ap by th : Inae forms inted obtained from this Office, and d e i vere d iiouonpo A It MY CONTRACTS. CommissariatiOffi e, Aldershot, Ist October, 1861. iNTO,4-'I,RS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock 11 , 1 on WENESY, the 26th of October, t r ron t i o )l i • e 611 PPly 1 1 :f ina Y be D willin DA g to enter into CONTRAC S i n FLOM/ (E lation and Hospital) and MEAT, tro:rh quantities as may be required for Six Months, b se er r e lat D ecember, 1864, to the 31st May, 1865, m for Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Ca pand ..,,„e he command. 1 , 1 ,in D r i e ar e , .ove being three distinct contracts, separete tenders potquired for each description of Fbur, and for Meat._ tam e d Tender and Conditions of Contract may b tn e o n b e - Senior on appication at this office, by lett.r addressed t Of te..., Ointrussariat Officer, or in person, between the hours Toe flnd four o'cicck. Zrect„ltt this office —4..e_ Tenders must be properly filled up, signed, and deli (under closed envelope marked on the out wiii ,__Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), and no Tender Oft2 , ' noticed unless m do on Forms obtained from this ......... 7, and delivered by the hour appointed. .„„__--------____ Pius! PIGS! PIGS!—INDIAN PIG MEAL, t out ittWithout husks, i upplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, e qual t o e YerY county i 3 n England, lOs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. don. barley or any meaL Delivered free in Lon tant.z.stablished 1858.—T 110 MAS PE A.RCE, Manager, 66, street, Southwark. B US INES SE S.—Mr. ANDREW HIND'S Costa g SEPTEMBER LIST, 5 00 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis. op Lettersett , enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free. CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S. Ii°MFORD (near).—Mr. ANDREW HIND is /4. ,leFlnatructed to SELL a detached FAMILY RESl and , ~ pleasantly situated, standing in its own grounds, tali i rout ten minutes' m alk from the railway station, con becrilg dining-room, drawing-room, breakfast parlour, five on;b °°r no, two kitchens, washhouse, pantry, and ce lars, gra vel dings &c It is approached by a carriage drive and garde Walk between two lawns in front ; well stocked kitchen ac re cn and orchard of about two acres, twoo c meaw f and 61 / c u , of arable, in all 114 acres • price £ 2 3 0 Further p jr ®4_l's and cards to view may be ha a't the_Cit Cen - tra :-.-........7 Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. -AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, ,London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curl; at l 'es. or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold ls 4 ud. , ; sent fr ee f or 54 s t am p s. Ross's Toilet Magazine, or 20 stamps. %REy HAIR. -248, High Holborn, London. — TheROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perms- Dy —4 ,"Lies' Hair from 7s. ed. ; Gentlemen's from ss. kosof t ea eyi sold at 3s. 6d ,or sent free for 54 stamps. It is use. • Ur - AIR b ESTROYER —248, High Holborn, 74_,London.— ALEX. ROSS ' S DEPILATORY removes, Up e kT effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face, tor 5 . 4 4d a p rms. 38. 6d. ; sent the same dayfis ordered by post am. kPANIS R Pi.o4 ALEX. ROSS'S CANTITARIDES OIL, which peedily Y is the acting , ingredient . in ,ttices Whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 i r, 0n.8.-- Id. A LEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn,, London. Essay .ta pmfi:E---iiAll iseases of the F fi G k E in . 'llA.l4,`dinaTrAlLtiy on; h d e ose re o m f o A v L e E r X ecin ß e O ss ! S s ' a S llowne sf 2s. 9d.; by post t 40 t Lps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High .tolborn London or 8 ALE, . 14 R°SS'S PACE POWDER, ls.; sent for Prol'l4l'lPß t ranscendr, 3s. ed., or 54 stamps. Skm 111 0 ,,„ flees a ent complexion, 45., or eu stamps. o n , Lon 38d0n.. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 218, i‘ nERA,L,SEAL SKIN JACKETS. As __mos. ..iat tii-- have`-r,L, JAMES and CO. res ectfully intimate e Vitri et , ey,, now ready' for SALE an unix. ually e l v a e7y tit L s t:s kinn sjoAl e tE se T a S i. and PALETOTS, made of th p e l eY are i n RI, ment for eith different sizes, and in shapes the most con fection ~ —er driving or the promenade. ' llB l)eeti o l i ' LL . ° Well and Co. will esteem the favour of a visit of ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, R. R. BIGNELL. During the week, and till further notice, in addition to the Dance Music, Selections from Verdi's popular Operas, Ii Trovatore, Traviata, Rig°letto, Sr 2. ; Meyerbeer's Etoile du Nord, Huguenots, &c. ; Melodies of the Forest, Valse, Guy Mannering, Polka, &c. Conductor—L. CURTI. Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, One Shilling. Manager —M. GRENET. 5 ' 7, 9 , REGENT-STREET. IJI De, -'' TR. -- IMPROVED MECHANICAL . skill D E N veis T ISr It Y t artistic — Professional abilities and great 131 Altit ) ,T l most successfully combined In the r a o r g e ct r i e o a n l valu e of . ‘ 1: 'CIA L T NET ti upon a new principle . eliced by el perfection of the art of Dentistry will experi asgia l! wishing to avail themselves of professional a treet , WY cznsulting Mr. AL ItI4:RT, 34, Great Russello efrQct 8 ,, r ra abury. whose experience has enabled him t _ means'admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial and which are so perfectly efficient. NTHING} IMPOSSIBLE.—Tne greatest and AtessriBll2stusef ill invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A. stre e t_ i °UN GOSNELL and CO.. 3, Icing-court, Lombard to th ondon, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer re st _ PUblic this truly marvellous flui.i. which gradually li,h a t . a es the human hair to its pristine hue —no matter at dye, . V• The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of NVh el; the" hair contrary, is beneficial to the system, and ke ep it i hair is once restored one application per month will perfect colour. Prize one guinea per bottle, or in ha ir bo4. orde r 'CB. 61. Testimonials froniarl fates of the . highest b, Been antes d from individuals of undoubted respectability, may bee na °I, application. Messrs. John Goonell and Co. have ti A, PPolnted Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princess ...........:Lues. n it „,* „ B ,COTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVE It Par e d NEVER FAILING RESlEDY.—Pre fseott Without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. °lire; r Br omley, gent, will be found invaluable to all who fun _ rota bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind. Riddiness, dizzinesa of the eyes, &o. For habual „ eness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier the blood, they are truly excellent • mild in their opera and r.r,r.teful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro itipktbdlgestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. / 4) , (1 2' W. Lambert, 8, Icing William-street, Charing-cross. tit le and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three a the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask or Dr. 7,2otes Hiltons and Liver Pills. The genuine are o f square aree, litug w axage, with " William Lambert," engraved on the PRIZE MED AL.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &0., .5 7 .4, To the Queen and the Rance of Wales. (Established 1720.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to :he excellence of .the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with latted Wicks, patented.. Is. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality • • • • .. Is. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. .. • • ls. sd. per lb. Second quality .. .. .. .. ls. 3d. per lb. Third quality . • • • • • .. Is. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., :8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar TE E T IL—Mr. ESKELL'S PATENT,—The exclusive right to this Patent was secured to Mr. Eskell, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, by her Ma jesty's Royal seal (July 17, 1860), and can only be procured at his residence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor mation can be obtained. Under this Patent, Artificial Teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect tender gums ; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un detectable, and they are guaranteed for mastication and articulation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. Consultations free. N°. 22,553 NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " , 3IARGARET AND HER BRIDESMAIDS." Ju=t ready, in 3 vols., T HE QUEEN OF THE COUNTY. By the Author of "Margaret and her Bridesmaids," &c. Ilurst and Bla kett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols , THE MASTER OF MARTON. Also, lately published, in 3 vols., THE COST OF CAERGWYN. By MARY _ . Hurst and Blael ett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. —The TWO ANASTASIAS, the New Novel, is Now Ready, at all Libraries and Book sellers, in Three Vols., post Bvo. Richard Penney, New Burlington-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vole„ post Bvo., price £1 lls. 6d., CORD 0 AKBU RN'S DAUGHTERS. By the Author of East Lynne," " Verner's Pride," &c. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street, E.C. This day is published, in Crown Bvo., price 7 s. 6 d. cloth , T HE CONFEDERATE SECESSION. By the Marquess of LOTHIAN. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. NEW NOVEL BY GUSTAVE AINIARD. This Day is published, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., THE BEE-HUNTRESS. By GUSTAVE AIMARD. John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVEL BY 1.--CLERGYMAN. This day, at all Libraries, in 2 vcis., A SKERDALE PARK. A Novel. .Cl John Maxwell and Co., Publishers, 122, Fleet-stvet. gOth Thousand, price is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.—Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity. C ANC KR, and CONSUMPION. New and painless treat ment. Price is. By JonN HARVEY, M.D., 9, Brook-street, Grosvenor-square. Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre. Forwarded free on receipt of 12 stamps, AFEW OBSERVATIONS on GOUT and RHEUMATISM, by one who has never failed to cure the same whenever it has fallen in his way. A sample bottle of the medicine forwarded free to all parts on receipt of 40 stamps. Address R. Cameron, 40, Tavistock-street, Covent garden, London. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.-HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE. THE BAND OF THE DANISH GUARDS. DANISH NATIONAL VOCALISTS. The new Danish Fan ta•ia, arranged expressly for this oc casion by M. Ju lien, entitled DAN SIDE TONE R. Vocalist hidlle. Liebhart. Violin M. Lotto. Conductor M. Jullien. Admission—ONE SHILLING. JULLTEN'S ANNUAL BAL D'OPERA on WED NESDAY, October 19. Q T. SA MES's H A L L, Entrances in Regent-street and Piccadilly. Professor ANDERSON'S Grand Entertainm,nt, the WORLD of MAGIC, • • And Miss ANDERSON'S extraordinary powers of SECOND SIGHT, - has mnde a success hitherto unparalleled in the annals of the Art Magique The PROGRAMME, in Its present form, will be repeated every Evening at Eight. On SATURDAYS, a FASHIONABLE JUVENILE DAY PE RFORMA N CE, at Three p.m. Doors open at seven and two. Stalls (Dress, Numbered, and strictly Reserved), 3s. ; Bal cony, 25.: Area and Galleries, ls. Juvenile Tickets for the stalls and balcony, 2s. each. Reserved seats may be secured at the Ticket Office, 28, Piccadilly. MR. GERMAN REED'S New OPERA di CAMERA ENTERTAINMENT.—TO-NIGHT, at Eight o'clock, THE SLEEPING QUEEN, by M. W. Balfe, Esq., the libretto by H. Farnie, Esq., and sustained by Miss D'Este Finlayson, Mr. 'Whiffin, Mr. Wilkinson, and Miss Poole. To be followed by TOO MANY COOKS, adapted from M. Offenbach by Mr. German Reed, the libretto by C. Furtado, Esq., and in which Mies D'Este Finlayson, Mr. Whiffin, and Mr. J. A. Shaw will appear. ROYAL GAL LERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every evening (except Sat rday), at 8. Saturday morning, at 3. Unreserved seats, ls., 25,; stalls, 35.; stall chairs, 55., can now be secured at the Gallery without fee. T H 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury MIII Company (limited'. LA. FAVORITE, MARTHA, THE TROVATORE, by the tollowinp.: Artistes, clz , Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry, Walmsley, Tyrr,ll, .tc. With augmented Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. Mr. JACKSON HANES, the Champion Skater, in his per formanc-, on the Drawing Room Skates, of Quadrilles, Varsoviennes, &C. UNSWORTH (or any other man), EUGENE, W. Randall, H. Nash, Heil. He-mann, and Mdlle. Cava'ho. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 10s. 61 CANTERBURY HALL Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury H all a Magic Spectacle far transcending in poetry of concept on, b auty and in genuity of arrangement, scenic effect, and brilliancy of light and colour any former aprlication (even at this Hall) of the principle known as the OPTICAL ILLUSION. in this last collective disp' ay of scenic art and of brilliant choreographic and statuesque grouping will be found pictures surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganta—Sce "THE SHIPWRECK," "THE PHANTOM COMBAI'," and " THE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corns cat' on s, is by Mr. W. F. Vandervell; the overture and inci dental music by Willem Vandervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. William Randall. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION. Established 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street. NEW ADDITION. A full length portrait model of MULLER, taken from life, is now added. Admission, is. ; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "Mr. Eskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing artificial teeth, and so constructing them that they last their purpose a lifetime. . . . The process has been patented, and promises to be most valuable."—Court Journal, August 4, 1860. "A surpr'sing novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth to the gum by a patented principle, which sccures the most perfect aid, combined with the greatest ease and agreeable appea•ance."—Morning Advertiser, August 9, 1860. Decayed teeth stopped, &o. Terms strictly moderate. 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. MrROSCOPE and TELESCOPE combined, just introduced, both of wonderful power, in Case, 255. PO. RET TELESCOPES, define 5 miles, 10s. 6d. ; 0 Miles, 215.; Ditto, and for Astronomy, 403. MICROSCOPES in Cabinets, 3 Powers, 10s. 6d., magnifies 15,000 times; Ditto, magnifying 3C,00 2 , 215., with Animalcule Cage, Life Box, &c. Lar..2e Compound Achromatic Ditto, power 65,000, 84s. The most powerful Race Glasses, made with sling cases, at 40s. MAGIC LAN TERNS and DISSOLVING 111_ VlEWS.—Manic Lanterns and 36 Pictures, 75. 6d. ; Lar,er Size, 10s. 6d. Dissolving Apparatus complete, 70s. Descriptive Catalogues for two stamps. Post Orders pay able Upper Baker-street. BERNARD DAVIS, 410, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON. Optician to the Institutions. QPECTACLE S.—Lenses ground on a new principle, requiring less than half the usual mannifying power, and with which the smallest print may be read to ex treme old age, (From the "Medical Circular," Nov. 16, 1859.) "We have seen Mr. Davis's improved spectacles, and by tL eir aid the most defective vision may be improved." Steel Frames and Pebbles, 10s. Gd. and 7s. Gd. Glasses, 68 . 6 cL> 10. Od,, _ Country 35 . 04 . residents euited by stating age. • 7 0 - i w ~/61-yri / e ,/ i, The _ .. • •—_,,,...., , . .., -,„„,,,,,,?. ~•,,•,) '-, _ ...5.,.-,-,. , ,,,. ~.., t , • -- _ From the ac , - .. 7 . 4. 1 / a rl--IK--//2 ( ~, ~- .' t ..V6 l ittq t,i, , - .t...' 44--trl • 4 - - - 1 - ''', _" ' ) ' ••• I'l: illi ;::1/411-44.iti ri - ': i f*,•,- .e. 14- % '.' •• ' f 4 '....• :irk . " 'c, .. x .v. K..:,, t f •.. . ~,,,,,,. . w. V.-... :" ri.' ': of the magazml z... t.-,... -- .:' I , f 4 ' •., v.; '• ~.. , • .'• •,, } .., • '.! -. , lif . z., . -:-'‘' • l A* '- -s , *V 0 ~.. . - 1t...74/4 i Li ,_ - - '4 - -,,,, - .. ~,........ , 1 ,, - _ the subject, it :: . f . ,';',' ';::-! ;1* * ilk "'lt /Ilk, r >l, .), \`'-.. - ' •' ' t Ilk \ ..- , .z..,..L. —.,- , Aillhli..., T •,_ ~"•,......., r • `- ~, tei , .. ~ . , • .. u, ..,• .... • „..• ••... 4 it -,,-- -,.. r. P ' 4. ..... • vs, :,/, , .4 -El l -,' 04.7 1 / 4 5.- , A 4;55 't . # 411;).:; -Liorc. ' ' EP - iN. _ . 1 ' . D. e viii.‘ t '` . ... Of, ' ''" , '"*". - gunpowder w hip PRICE ..4d; STAMPED....Sd. fled, he could aek as many questions as he chose. He then announced that he would do the vest trick, which Fay would seldom do before a public audience, but reserved for the edifi cation of believers, in private circles, as the spirits had told him that it was too mysterious and sublime for unbelieving eyes to behold. About this time, the Fays began to show strong symptoms of wishing they were somewhere else; but still 11. Melville put as good a face on matters as possible. It was evident the sympathies of the audience were fast running towards the Itcv. Mr Dobbs.. Ho was succeeding admirably. A vest was borrowed from a gentleman in the audience and placed in the boy, not in reach of the operator —for it must be remembered that during all these demon strations he was not only tied tightly down to his seat by strong cords, but his hands and feet were so securely fastened that it seemed almost impossible for him to move. The doors were closed, the room darkened, and on less than a minute he called for light, and there was a vest, with one arm of the operator passed through the armhole, and his hands still tied as tightly as before. The applause now was deafening, and the heads of the Fays and some of their more ardent admirers, and firm believers came down another peg. The great flour test seemed to be Fay's best holt, as he had alluded to it ones or twice dur ing the evening, Mr Dobbs now gave notice that he would attempt it. The committee placed in each of his tied hands a small portion of flour, and in less than two minutes the spirit hand and other demonstrations were made, but when the doors were opened he walked upon the stage with the full amount of flour still in his hands, The audience now rose in one wild shout. The wonderful and miraculous "flour test" was triumphantly accomplished. Down went the crest of the Flays and their friends another notch. Dobhs then proceeded to explain to the audience; the, whole minute of these tricks. He was tied in a chair by the committee on the stage, in the full glare of the gaslight, where all had a good view, and untied himself with the greatest ease, and in a very short space of time, He demon strated fully how the knots were tied, and lucidly explained how the " tricks in the box" were accomplished. He did many more remarkable things during the evening_than we have mentioned, but as they are done in a similar way it is unnecessary to go into further detail. Suffice it to say that it was a most searching, thorough, and successful exposi- tion of one of the boldest humbugs ever practised upon a confiding community, and the Rev. Mr Dobbs deserves the thanks of all who hold religion sacred, and we hope he will not give up the good work commenced, but will follow not only Fay, but the Davenport Boys, and expose them in every town in which they may attempt to exhibit. It seems that Fay is an old practitioner, and has been often exposed, though never so thoroughly as by the Rev. Mr Dobbs, who showed him up in the winter of 1863, hav ing been appointed on the committee to examine Foy, who was then giving exhibitions at Titusville, and having dis covered the modus operandi of the affair at that time he fol lowed the fellow up, through Western Pennsylvania, ex posing him everywhere, and driving him out of the country into the east. He received a splendid gold watch for his efforts in the matter. It is to be hoped that this revelation will open the eyes of the people to the manifold devices which the Davenport Boys and other mediums are constantly palming off upon them. Let them no longer be deceived. NEWSPAPER r_,_...., c....,..,_______..,,,,,,,, 4,7„,„,., ~,7:., l '' .. . ' I- __ 2::...? , or, Belvedere Cattkst __ _ . ; 1,--/ L -7 -1 ------=, •.,... ,y^y ;counts rendered by titi pralctig es, who are best able to speak upon appears that the whole quantity of ich was exploded amounted to about 1,040 barrels, or 104,0001 b, there being 100 lb to a barrel. Of this, 75,0001 b were stored in the maga- zinc of Messrs. Hall, 20,0001 b in their barges which were being unloaded nt the time of the erplosior, and 9,0001 b in the depot of Lowood Gunpowder Company, or which is commonly known as that of Messrs. Days-Barker and Co., the previous ownez The Lowood Company were expecting a large sup• ply of powder from their mills at Newton-in Cart. met, Lancashire, which had been delayed through export and other orders deliverable at their other depots. Their magrzine at Belvedere was about 40 felt long by 30ft in width, and consisted of two floors. It was erected about four years ago, and stood at a distance of 60 or 70 yards from that of Messrs. Hall. Like that, too, it had a wooden jetty pro- jeeting into the river for the loading and unloading of gunpowder. No one had entered it on the morn. ing of the explosion. The number of persons killed and wounded by the explosion has now also been ascertained with tolerable accuracy. Five have died, and there are five mere missing—namely, a man named Wright, who was employed 'as under.storekeeper at the magazine of Messrs. Hall, and four men who navi. gated the two barges that blew up. The names of the latter are William Jemmett, master, and Luke Barker, mate, of the barge Good Design; and John Dodson, captain, and Daniel Wise, mate, of the barge Harriet. The dead are George Rayner, storekeeper at the magazine of Messetklialli loho, Yar - ki,Tt - boy orf 5, - 6, ilitiyed there ; Elizabeth Wright, - about the same age, daughter of the miss ing under-storekeeper; and John Hubbard and James Eaves. The two last named were labouring men, unconnected with the magazines, but who were engaged in constructing a river wall in their immediate vicinity. At the time of the explosion they were collecting their tools in an outhouse at tached to the cottage of Walter Silver, the store- keeper at the Lowood magazine, preparatory to beginning work for the day. Seven of the sufferers are at Guy's Hospital, and ali doing well, with one exception. There are also a few others in and about Erith who are more or less injured. One of these, John Simms, a boy of 11, was gathering mushrooms, with an elder brother, at the time of the explosion, about 100 yards from the principal magazine. He sustained serious injuries, but his brother escaped unhurt. He was struck on the head with what he thought was a brick, and which ,ore off the scalp at the back and depressed a por• lion of the skull partly upon the brain, He is now under treatment by Dr. Tipple, of Erith, and hopes are entertained that he may recover. William Yorke, aged 6 years, a younger brother of the boy John Yorke, who was killed, was picked up among the ruins just after the explosion, badly injured. Two pieces of wood about two inches and a half long, and one a quarter and the other half an inch thick, have since been extracted from his head, where they were completely buried, and one of which pressed upon the brain. Captain M‘Killop kindly took the poor little sufferer into his house, where he still remains, but in a somewhat preca- rions state. Three cbildren, between 8 and 11 years of age, were staying with Walter Silver at the time of the explosion. One of the three, Samuel Fletcher, his nephew, he had sent to post a letter. The boy had just left the cottage when the explosion was heard, and he was thrown down and had two of his ribs broken. He was at the moment passing the man Hubbard, who was killed on the spot. Another of the children escaped with a few scratches, while a third, Eliza beth Osborn, with whom it was playing, received injuries from which she ;is not expected to recover. The escape of Silver himself was little less than miraculous► He was straining milk through a sieve just within the back door of his cottage when he was startled and thrown down by the first explosion in the barge, while the second and still more ap pallingone in the magazine shattered the house about his ears. He was afterwards dug out of the ruins with a few bruises about the head and body, and has since being going about. A public meeting has been held in Erith with the view to obtain compensation for the serious damage occasioned to property in the town and neighbourhood by the explosion, or, at all events, protection from any similar catastrophe in future. It was attended by the principal inhabitants of the place, and also of Belvedere. Archdeaco❑ Smith, the vicar, who acted as chairman, commented upon the vast and almost overwhelming calamity which had suddenly befallen that district. There were, he said, some points connected with the catastrophe which were not unworthy of remark. Among these were the zeal and alacrity displayed by the entire population to render every aid under the direful circumstances, and the singular sobriety and praise• worthy demeanour manifestechby the thousands of persons, from remote places, whose curiosity led them to visit the spot. They had, indeed, reason to be thankful for that ready aid, which doubt. less prevented a mighty river from asserting its dominion, and again flowing over the broad acres where it no doubt at one time found its original bed. The great sacrifice of property was, after all, as nothing when compared to the sacrifice of human life ; and he hoped it would go forth to the world that the sympathy of that meet ing with their fallen brethren was paramount. He conceived that the meeting had assembled for two objects. First, it desired to make a well-considered and temperate expression of regret, or he might ino deed say remonstrance, against the re-erection of powder factories so near populous localities ; and they wished also to consider the question of loss and compensation, and to come to some decision as to who was responsible. Resolutions were afterwards passed to the effect that the disaster clearly proved the impropriety of large quantites of gunpowder and other explosive materials being allowed to be mann. factored or stored in the vicinity of populous places, and that communications be made to the Home. office and to the licensing magistrates, pointing out the dangers attending the establishment of guns powder manufactories and warehouses in such places, and urging the discontinuance of existing licenses and the refusal to grant new ones for such places in future. A committee composed of 17 of the chief inhabitants, with the Archdeacon at their head, was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. The committee was also instructed to consider the mode of carrying gunpowder in barges and the dan gers attending it, as pointed out by Capt. M‘Killop, with the view to make a proper representation to the Government on the subject. Before separating the meeting passed a unanimous resolution marking their high sense of the services rendered by Mr c ivil engineer, Mr Webster, the contract or at Moore, cros Crossness Point, and his men, and of the military authorities at Woolwich on the sadoccasion—ser vices which, by the speedy restoration of the on, bankment of the river, tended to preserve a large district of country from inundation. It was stated that Messrs Hall had undertaken to provide for the widows and orphans of the men who perished by the catastrophe. It is but due to the authorities of the North Kent R a ilway to state that in the enormous pressure put upon them on Sunday by the thousands upon thous sands of visitors to the scene of the calamity they had recourse to a stringent regulation which no doubt greatly conduced to the safety of the p:ssen gers in the emergency. The trains as they filled were dispatched one after another at intervals sure ficiently long to prevent danger from collision, but in addition to that no train wss allowed under any circumstances to leave a station until a telegraphic message had been received that the train immedis ately preceding it had left the station in advance of it. So imperatively was this rule adhered to that in both the down and the up journeys the trains were often detained a considerable time at a sta. tion, This, of course, with respect to the up-journey, caused great delay in bringing such an enormous number of people back to London, but it was justia fled by the paramount consideration of the Fubtm safety. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1864. GNURNII U RE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First-class oods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly libera l to Clergymen and Gentlemen. 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Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Feterborou.9;l2, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great bran :... COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London. S.E. gun was of nearly 2001 b weight, double, the inventor said, what it ought to have been. The first trial was at the 1,000 yards target. The shot went in a good direction, and pitched 100 yards beyond the mark. The other two experiments were at 13 deg elevation for range, and 4 deg. for aim. In neither case could the position of the shot be observed when they fell. The tide was out, and doubtless on striking they buried themselves in the mud. The experiments, as far as they went, were considered satisfactory. When in the gun the shot stands in a vertical position, and rotation is caused by the axis of the chamber lying above the centre of the shot, and by a smell projection in the interior of the muzzle, at the bottom, meeting the edge of the shot. From the short ness of the gun it possesses all the advantages of a breech loader, and from the simplicity of its construction and the little metal used it promises to be a cheap and easily handled weapon. The projector may be too sanguine, but he avers that ono weighing no more than the ordinary G 8 pounder will discharge a 6001 b disc. The carriage is fitted with a number of galvanised indiarubber cylindrical buffers (in contact by their sides, not extremities), placed in grooves on the flanks of the gun ; these received the recoil. By a simple mechanical arrangement the rebound was received in a similar manner on a series of rings fixed below the gun. This disposition of indiarubb3r the inventor prefers to any compressors, as they do not make the"gun jump, to use the technical expression. Biarritz and Scarborough. (From a Correspondent of the Morning Lost.) It does not fall to the lot of many travellers in search of health and pleasure to visit, in ono season, the British queen of watering places and the rocky little resort of Frenoh fashion on the shores of the Gulf of Gascony. It has been my fate to journey, at all possible speed, from the Pyrenees to Yorkshire, and, with the Casino and the old port of Biarritz fresh in my mind's eye, to find myself on the Spa, and in the midst of the refreshing scandal, and a witness of the vivacious flirtations which are among the attractions of the queen of watering places. The contrasts in externals and in manners and habits between the imperial and the royal watering place are infinite. The great ladies of France and Spain make holiday wilh a graceful abandon and a costume—or ten costumes—for the part. They are free to laugh and rollick. They are not above donkey-riding. They don't parade before the sea, with stately steps and set fea tures. They don't sit, in calm and silent rows, round an al fresco orchestra, listening to the airs with which London organs have made every grocer's boy familiar. The great ladies of France and Spain throw aside the robes of state, and go trooping through the narrow street, and chaffer at the wood and ivory carving stalls, and show their dainty white feet on the sands in their bathing dress, and laugh as the waves play about their shoulders ; and take their ices and coffee in the open air—free and frolicsome as mermaids. They give reins to their rich fancy, and invent origina dresses suited to the occasion. Old Neptune rolls shells and seaweed to the shore, only to provide them pretty trimmings for jacket and skirt, and Garibaldi and saut-en-barque. These dainty nymphs gather shells not that they may list to the echoes of the sea in them, but that they may steal a march on the inventive powers of fair neighbours. Happy is she who sails forth from her toy chalet on the steep and rugged rock in a dress unlike in fashion and colour the robe of any other lady in Biarritz. She sweeps, conscious of her triumph, along the esplanade of the Casino, she climbs the rocks, she toils along the sands, smiling, chattering to anyfine fleur of her acquaintance she may meet. She is careful to impress upon you by her manner that this original, not to say startling, costume in which she has decked her charms is a trifle about which she has not the least concern, and on which she could not be persuaded to bestow a single thought. " Madame has a dress that is delicious. It is ravishingly becoming—it is as fresh as a rose." Madame scornfully surveys her skirts, and then, with a pretty toss of the head, calls the entire costume—a nothing. She will talk about anything except that upon which all her waking dreams are concentrated. She tosses off the ad miration she excites, and laughs and prattles to the young count, who is wrapping up his tendresse in pretty conceits, and has given his whole heart to her and to the suit of vel vet and the modified Hessian boots in which he is cased. He protests that she will break his heart should she prove too cruel ; and presently when madame has returned to the chalet to put on costume No, 2, he will roll his cigarette, and sip his curagoa and iced water, and vow to his friend that madame hes almost tempted him to put off his shooting for a couple of days. " You can flirt all the year round, but the shooting sea son come to a close, my friend. Take your gun and leave madame." The young men of France are bitter, and cynical, and calculating in these days. They talk of la femme without respect—as a toy, -- a very expensive amusement and orna ment. They air their conquests as Beau Brummell showed his coat. They pay attentions as Brumtnell tied his cravat. The world must see how great is their fascination, and how exquisite are their manners. The old French ladies shake their wrinkled hands, and murmur mon .Dieu, as they watch the insolent airs of the rising generation. They wonder whether society can be tending when young men will stand covered in thb presence of ladies and of the aged. Society may be rising or falling in manners and morals under the Second Empire. I shall not presume to offer an opinion on this momentous question. I only know that if society is going—to use the slang phrase—" to the bad," it is going thither with the utmost cheerfulness, and in state. The march is a merry one, and nowhere merrier than at BiarrL z, where the pale and feeble young men of the Bou levards des Capucines, turning away from mademoiselle, flirt with madame. This is the salt paradise of married ladies. These grotesque costumes, these wondrously trim med sea-side jackets, are not fo r the young ladies. These are not yet of the world. They must dress , simply. and walk with their eyes cast to the earth. They may not go 20 yards along a public thoroughfare alone. In due season they will be wed, and then they may bid adieu to domestic life. "I find unmarried girls insipid," s aid a little Parisian to me. He was about 25 years of age, and had s p ent the que l q ues males francs he had i n h er it e d, in the vices and woful experiences which supported the gilded saloons of the northern side of the fashionable Boulevards. A Lilliputian roue, with the airs of a giant, he blew his cloud, and said, " Young ladies don't amuse me—l can't interchange my ideas freely with them. A married woman is a woman of the world." Of the world—and always in the world, he might have added. Married women were the life and soul of Biarritz. The young cavaliers were in crowds also, and they appeared to be of the little debauche's opinions as to the relative charms of unmarried and married ladies. The matrons made the streets and shore look as bright with colours as that avenue in the Zoological Gardens which the parrots and cockatoos adorn. They were light hearted, full of grace and coquetry, and they communicated their brightness to the atmosphere of the place. At the table d'hote, and at the great ten o'clock breakfast, they sparkled while they ate. I saw a lady in a red suit, trimmed with white (who had been likened to a dan g er si g nal ear lier in Yand unreservedly. the day), talk , while she held the le g of a chicken i n her coffee, in the open air, hand. She wou ld have looked better, I think, with . out the bone ; but she looked well, and b y no means vulgar with it. The ta ble d' hot e was a holiday Abs dinner ,tyrn etdehtet . hws sea. They n wTt hwent m Everybodyetlyalfionpr lingered he rwe talkededtroelit—or atb e i tgthhe little f a i r i n t h e high t l took ices at the caf e — or went to the Casin o for a little singing, or dancing, or gambling. Everybody was . on foot. Ca rr i ages are of little i or no use at Biarritz —for tis a pocket watering place; and the fun and enjoyment are a lively, social equality and healthy exercise. The Empress sets forth on foot, from the villa, leaning on the Emperor's arm, and c a ll s a t one of the hotels, to see a friend. Her Majesty may be met strolling on the sands; and she will talk freely and affably, lik e t h e rest of the visitors. She stopped one day to admire a dog that was following a gentleman. She coaxed it, and talked to it, and complimented the owner on the possession of it. Whereupon the gentleman begged that her Majesty would accept the animal. A pretty and graceful excuse and a smile were the answers ; and the lady passed on the quietest and the most distinguished figure on the . sands. Biarritz, in short, is a lively, sociable, extravagant place, where people greatly enjoy themselves in preposterous toilettes; where they masquerade and hold fancy dress balls in the sea; and where there does not appear to be man, woman, or child under a cloud. The Sardin e women f oot i t nimbly and merrily, and the S p anish hawkers just seem to be selling the gaudy produce of Castilian looms for sheer fun. Many a passage of wit do they have with their French customers. Their manner would startle a portly British dame who is accustomed to take her annual dose of sea air from Spa terrace at Scarborough. What would mater say if a swarthy fellow, wearing great military moustac hi os, were to advance to her, and, with a bow, propose to take her in his arms and dip her in the sea. I saw such au auda cious fellow astound an English lady in the old port at Biarritz a few weeks ago. I hope, and trust, and pray, that Mrs. Grundy may never take train at the Orleans Railway terminus at Paris for Biarritz. Should her eyes ever fall on groups of bathers in the old port she will swoon, and be borne away in a state of pious horror. In vain will the French argue before her that Biarri tz bathing is by far moredec foentr one than momentthat o with thatScarborough,f a n d mus t no t b e compared of Margate, Ramsgate, Hastings, or Herne Bay. Mrs Grundy will pack up her trunks and return direct to London to refresh her moral sense with a week at Clapham and a few days at Brixton. "My dear," will she say, " the creatures were actually walking about the sands with their feet bare—as bare, my dear, as baby's. To be sure they were dressed—but how ? Miss Bloomer was a Quakeress to them, And then, men and women and children, all together—floundering about, with write fttstehe4 upoiz their backti--autl ga, quite pun with no more consciences—as I told Grundy—than por poises. Thera were the females (ladies, I suppose, they call themselves), holding the great brown hands of the most im pudent looking bathing men, my dear, and actually—for I saw it with my own eyes—actually learning to swim. I don't think ➢lr Grundy will venture to take site to another place like that in a hut ry." At Biarritz the visitor feels, in short, that although he is bound to vindicate the originality of his mind by the ex travagant novelty of his cc stump, he is in a holiday place. It is a little amateur stage, where nautical pieces are in voge. Everybody is dressed for his part early, when the curtain of night is lifted above the mountains, and the sharp screaming of the Sardine women cuts through the morning air. The merry miners and actors come forth—not sleepy eyed, but with eyes as clear and fresh as dew drops. It is impossible to lie abed. The light air buoys you from your couch as soon as the sun has warmed it a little. You are be times under the trees, in the street, where you will find queer looking " boots" gaily polishing the shoe leather of the hotels, keeping their work in a row, of Balmorals and Bluchers. upon the benches. Waking in Scarborough on a fine, brisk September morn ing is a very different affair. I am in state—in a state hotel. Last night when I arrived the visitors were issuing from the great dining hall, and proceeding in orderly, quiet groups to their respective rooms. Many of the ladies were in stately dinner dress. I peeped into the drawing room—a long, effectively furnished apartment, of which the atmosphere was heavy, and where every group seemed to be absorbed in the reflection that the next group were looking at them. There were two pianos and a card table or two. Perhaps Miss Smithson would oblige, if her cold were better ? Was Miss Jasy inclined to take a hand? Miss Jasy frowns at Miss Smithson, who is giving herself airs a her singing, and thinks how in her time ladies knew how to behave themselves. Then there is the laughing, fast Miss Smythe, who is everywhere known as " the soul of the party." Of course she takes to thebalcony, and her laughter breaks upon the silence—as she declares this to be " jolly," and that to be "slow." There is a deliberation about all these proceedings that oppresses the traveller hither from Biarritz. The movements of the people are slower. In the bar of the hotel, where the military gentlemen congregate, and ask the young lady who directs the establishment for dwy sherwy," the slowness of the men's movements strikes me forcibly. They lift a spill from the mantelpiece, and direct it towards the light, as though they were guid ing the ,corner stone of a building into its place. A Frenchman at Biarritz lights his cigarette in an instant. To walk to the Spa, and on the Spa, is accomplished, to all appearance, as a duty, and not as a delight. The men walk up end down more like sentries than saunterers. In the evening, when the two bands are playing, and all Scar borough is at the Spa, there is a lack of gaiety under the festive lamps. The scene is a lovely one from the heights— when the town, in ravine and upon rock, from the castle to the shore, is powdered with twinkling lights, mei it is heard to tell where the lamps end and the stars began. The mornings are of the freshest, and the sea that rolls hence to the bleak Scandinavian coast dances the fishing boats upon its unquiet bosom, and comes lapping the walls of the Spa, and salting the air for the good of the buxom ladies of Manchester, and Sheffield, and Bolton, as well as for the high ladies. There is a fat, sweet, English land, hill and dale, wo ,d and lively trout-stream round about. ,The Forge Volley is a rich and rare sight of leafy wood and emerald pasturage. The lovely rides are many—to the mighty rock, Flamborough Head; to Hunmanby, where there are wild, furze-bestrewed sheep-walks; to the beautiful valley of the Haybourn Wyke. Then there is Robin Hood's Bay, where the fishermen have perched their humble nests in the rocks. Whitby is within reach. To these places, over wold and heath, by trout-streams and over bold hills, the stately Scarborough visitors ride and drive, and get health and strength, in the most orthodox and staid manner. Their saunter on the Spa, when the band is playing morning and evening, is occasionally relieved by a concert or a dramatic reading, or a visit to the little theatre—or, when they feel very lively indeed. by a ball. Their comings and goings are duly chronicled in a broadsheet, to their great content. Mr, Mrs, and the three Misses Tirebuck have arrived at the Crown Hotel. Captain and Mrs Swashbuckler are stay ing st the Prince of Wales'. These are facts which are of interest to the citizens of Scarborough, and provoke a brisk sale of the journal in which they are recorded. At Biarritz there is a newspaper devoted to the arrivals and departures, but it is more liberal and comprehensive than that of Scar borough. Its list of arrivals include that of Jules Latour, shoemaker, at Madame Cornichou's, and of Napoleon Gauthier, carpenter, at the widow Ganache's. Who and what are the Grubbinses ? or the Smales ? or the Red. dishes ? Are they people to be visited ? Have the girls got any money? Are they quite up to the mark—people a fellow can know in town, and that sort of thing ? They don't seem to know anybody—anybody being flakes of the upper crust. There is the solitary gay widow who has been at Eaux Bonness, Ems, Baden, and has now actually turned up at Scarborough I Does she know how the gossip about her is stealing round the dinner tables P She is pronounced to be on a brisk matrimonial excursion. This is all very well, but has she any money f She is pretty and lively, and not old—no, not more than 30, bat why does she travel alone ? She was alone at Eaux Bonnes ; she knew nobody at Ems, and people fought shy of her at Baden. Of this materlal is much of the conversation made up. Mrs Barker has a new bonnet, and, positively, a new cloak. What is Mr Barker's income ? That tall pale man,who is always reading French papers, perched up on one of the high seats in the Spa, is Count Lalanne ; his wife has—well, my dear, it's a shocking story, and I quite pity the poor man." This by way of enlivening a walk along the heights. " Mrs Grogan has aged very much since last season ; her stories about six and-thirty will not do now." This by way of seasoning the stretch across the bridge. There is a sight at Scarborough, however, that Biarritz cannot match. I grant the little Gascony village its great gaiety, its thorough holiday look. I confess that its atmo sphere is lighter than that of the British queen of watering places. The dresses of the Scarborough ladies look tame, and generally dull after the fire-fly tints which deck . _ madame at Biarritz. But in the morning, while pater• is finishing his paper at home, and while mater is perfecting her toilet for her first walk, let him ;who would enjoy a cheery sight wind himself down to the Spa. Here shall he find trorps of English children, with rosy cheeks, and clear blue eyes, and mottled calves, running, laughing, and shouting, as fresh as the sea, and as restless. And their English mothers come down to see them build their sand fortifications ; and the ladies look better, it seems to me, with their tender eyes fixed upon baby than the Biarritz countess listening with an exquisite society smile to the artful compliments of Monsieur le Baron, At Biarritz there are no children. The Spiritualists Exposed—The Davenport Brothers. (F 1 em the loronto Globe of Sept, 16.) A short time since two men, representing themselves by advertisement to be the Davenport Brothers, paid a visit to this city, and performed what they claimed to be spiritual manifestations. It will be remembered that the Music hall was crowded on each evening of their appearance, and much speculation was indulged as to the real modus operandi by which the tricks were performed. Some gen• tlemen determined if possible to fathom the mystery. A challenge was sent to the pseudo Davenport Brothers, but, after delaying from time to time, they stated that they would not give these gentlemen " a private seance, because they kaew they would not act with them in good faith." After this the Davenports visited Hamilton and St. Catha rine's. In the latter town they were so closely concerned for a private exhibition that they, fearing an exposé, sud denly left the place. It appears that Mr Fay has been running the concern on his own account in Cleveland, but has met his match and been thoroughly exposed. Mr Fay had been gleaning a very good harvest there until the appearance of a Rev. A. S. Dobbs, who did not believe the spirits had anything to do with the " manifestations." He challenged Fay, and said that what Fay would do he would follow. The challenge was accepted, a night ap pointed for the trial, but we will lot the Cleveland Herald of the 28th August tell the rest of the story : A fair audience, composed about equally, we should judge, of believers in spiritualism and those who did not, assembled in Brainard's-hall. About 8 o'clock Mr Dobbs made his appearance. He remarked that plays and tricks were all very well in their place, and were often a great source of amusement, which was necessary to our happiness, but no person had a right to use tricks and mummeries ard deceptions in the sacred name of religion. After a few more remarks he proceeded to his exposition. Fay and his wile came into the hall, apparently in high feather, to all appearance confident of the utter failure of the attempt to expose their manifestations. The same committee that acted for Mr Fay—John S. Ryder and W. R. Mound —were chosen to act for Mr Dobbs. They examined the box and pronounced it similar to the one used by Fay. Mr Dobbs then entered the cabinet, the lights were turned down, and the spirits proceeded to tie him fast, which they did in an incredibly short space of time. The lights were turned on, the doors of the cage thrown open, and there sat the reverend gentlemen, tied tight in hands, arms, legs and body. The committee reported that he was fully as tightly tied as Mr Fay wss, although the knot was slightly different. A manifest though not extravmant round of applause greeted the report. The doors were then closed and he went rapidly forward,doing ono after another all the marvels ever attempted by Fay. Loud noises were heard in the box, and the sound of bells, beating of drums, and various other demonstrations. When the " spirit hand" was exhibited through the aperture the house came down with a perfect storm of applause. Several times during the evening Fay had attempted to interrupt the proceedings, but he always answered good humouredly, and vies told that 4 when the perforraauco caw° to a close, if lac) . was taot Naval and Military Intelligence, The review season at Aldershot wus brought to a close yesterday by an inspection by the Duke of Cambridge, Field Marshal Commanding in Chief, of the whole of the troops at that station. It was intended to have had a bril• liant field day after the march past and inspection, but the dust driven by a pierg easterly wind prevented its taking place. The Duke . of Cambridge, attended by Col Clifton, aide de camp, and Col Herbert, and accompanied by Lieut Gen Sir James York Soarlett, adjutant general, and Lieut Gen Sir Richard Airey, quartermaster general, arrived on the ground precisely at 10 o'clock, having travelled from London by the ordinary train at 8 o'clock. The division, which had been drawn up in two lines of contiguous column at quarter distance, received his royal highness with the customary salute, and the inspection was immediately pro ceeded with. This being over, the division marched past, first the cavalry, horse artillery, and field batteries in open column of squadrons at a walk, and the infantry in open column of grand divisions in quick time, in the following order : —A and B batteries of Royal Horse Artillery, Ist and 2d Dragoons, 14th Hussars ; E and F batteries-9th Brigade Royal Artillery, the 31st, 85th, 59th, 39th, 83d, 75th, 14th, 62d, and 2d battalion 60th Rifles, two companies of Engineers, two tioops of Royal Engineer Train, and two battalions of Military Train. The artillery and cavalry next went past by threes at a trot, and the infantry by brigades in contiguous column. The artillery and cavalry again passed the saluting:point in open column of squadrons at a trot, and shortly after this portion of the division was ordered to quarters. The Duke of Cambridge then addressed the commanding officers, the officers commanding brigades, and a series of manoeuvres by brigades and regiments in echelon followed, lasting about half an hour, and exactly at 12 o'clock the troops were ordered home. His royal highness and suite afterwards visited the cavalry barracks and the now artillery stables, and, after part tiling of luncheon with Lieut Gen Pennefather at the headquarters hut, returned to town by an afternoon train. The Duke of Cambridge is expected to arrive at Ports mouth on the 17th or 18th inst. on his annual visit of in spection. The 64th Regiment was officially inspected yesterday on Southsea Common, Portsmouth, by Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C.B. The men were exceedingly steady under arms, in their marching past, and the subsequent battalion move ments. The firing, especially the volley firing, was very regular and even in delivery, and altogether the 64th passed through their inspection ordeal with very great credit both to officers and men. _ _ . Capt. C. L. T. Usher and a detachment of 30 non-com missioned officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marine Light Infantry have left bead-quarters for Greenock, for service on board the Coastguard ship at that station. The Bth company of Royal Engineers, which is shortly expected to arrive at head-quarters, Chatham, from China, is ordered, on joining the Royal Engineer establishment, to be raised to the proper strength of 120 men of all ranks, its present numbers being only about 40 non •commissioned officers and men. The company has been is China a great number of years, having been despatched from England at the commencement of the China war. Since its absence it has lost fully two-thirds of its number from death or other casualties. It will be augmented to its full number from the depot companies at head-quarters. The screw corvette Cadmus, 21, 400 horse power, got up steam abreast the dockyard at Chatham yesterday, when, with the exception of one or two trifling alterations, the machinery and engines were found to work exceedingly. satisfactory. She will coal up to-morrow, previously to making her official trial of speed at the Maplin Sands, and afterwards go into the first-olass steam reserve, in readiness for commission, to relieve most probably one of the vessels attached to the West India squadron. The iron frigate Black Prince, 40, screw, Capt. Lord F. Kerr, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning to rejoin the Channel Fleet. It is stated that the Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., and the Himalaya screw troop ship, Capt. E. Lacy, are both about to be paid out of corn mission at Portsmouth, The Warrior has been already beyond the ordinary term of commission, and the Himalaya requires new boilers, Both vessels, therefore, exhibit suffi cient reasons for paying out of commission, but the chief reason, perhaps, consists in the fact that the wooden three decker Victoria is ordered for commission at Portsmouth, by Capt, Goodenough, as fligship for the Mediterranean, and the representatives of the Admiralty at present in Eng land cannot solve the problem "how to man her" without putting other ships out of commission. The Excellent can not give the quota of gunners' mates and trained gunners, nor can the depot ships supply her with seamen. The Tamar screw troopship, Capt. Stirling, has completed her complement of Welsh coal with 200 tons of north country coals. The Tamar is under orders to proceed on troop service to Kingstown and convey thence the 86th Regiment to Gibraltar. From Gibraltar she will take the 2d battalion of the 8.1 Regiment to China, and from China she will transport the 67th Regiment to the Cape of Good Hope. From the Cape she will return to China with the 2d battalion of the 11th Regiment, to relieve the 99th Regi ment, which the Tamar will convey to the Cape on her way to England. Th 3 recent powder explosion will very probably direct the attention of the authorities to the present condition of our public establishments for the storing of combustible mate rial, similar to, and in many instances far more dangerous than that which has caused such devastation at Belvedere and near St. Petersburg. Our public powder magazines are so far isolated from any towns that if they by any mis chance blew up the damage would probably be local and the loss of life confined to the persons residing on the grounds or employed there. Here, then, may be calculated almost to a certainty the extent of the damage that would be caused by an explosion. In our arsenals and gunwharfs, which are chiefly situated in close conjunction with the national dockyards and the crowded towns of our seaports, the case is vastly different, and it will be no great exaggeration to say that in such situations the inhabitants live in daily danger of a much more serious calamity than either of those which have just occurred. Take Portsmouth as an example. The dockyard at Portsmouth and the town of Portsea are joined to the town of Portsmouth by tho Ordnance-wharf and Arsenal. Inside the walls of this establishment stand four large magazines, which at present, in addition to a large assortment of rockets and other missiles of war, con tains upwards of 8,000 filled, or, as they are expressively named in teehnical language, " live" shells, the majority of which are for 8-:nch guns. When these magazines were first erected they were, no doubt, constructed with all possible care, and were isolated from all other build ings the companionship of which might be dangerous. Within the past 18 months, however, a change has taken place. The magazines now stand within a few yards of the roaring furnaces of the boiler-house of a newly-erected Royal factory for the repair of Armstrong guns and their carriages—a Woolwich on a diminutive scale. A narrow cart-road and some 20 or 30 feet of this new factory only separate its boiler.house furnaces from the four loaded ma gazines. The only sane course to follow under such cir cumstances would be to remove their magazines and their dangerous contents to some more safe and isolated locality. A gun, we believe, of entirely novel construction has been invented and patented by Major-Gen. Hutchinson, com manding in the west of England, and if the expectations of the inventor be only partially realised, groat changes will take place in the construction of much of our ordnance. The objects sought to be accomplished in the new gun are —first, that it shall weigh little more than 20 times instead of upwards of 800 times the weight of the shot, as is usual; secondly, that without friction it shall impart rapid rotation to the shot; thiraly, that the shot shall be of the form best adapted for penetrating the air and target; and lastly, that it shall leave no vacuum behind it, and no ricochet when it strikes water. A few experiments have been made at Ply mouth. The last took place on the 28th ult. on board the gunnery ship Cambridge, in Hamoaze. The gun is some what like a lengthened mortar. The chamber is of the usual cylindrical form, but only sufficiently long to hold the pow der and wadding. It is at the mouth that the chief peculi arity occurs. The shot is termed disc shot. Those used last week were about the size of two very small plates placed against each other, excepting that the edge is sharp. The muzzle of the gun is much enlarged, and is formed so as to receive with great exactness the inner half of the disc shot. The more accurate the fitting is the less the escape of gas and the truer the aim that can be taken. When in plats the outer edge of the shot is flush with the muzzle of the gun. The shot weighed 41b 2oz. The charge of powder 6oz, being 1-11th part of the weight of the shot, whereas the usual proportion is about one-fourth the weight of the 151zot, Who HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the .Registrar-General's Report.) The deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday were 1,284, showing a slight increase on the number in the previous week, which was 1,229. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the 39th week of 1854 are excluded, it will be found that the average number of deaths in corresponding weeks of tea years, 1854-63, was 1,138, and if this result be corrected for increase of population, it becomes 1,252. Therefore the deaths registered last week exceeded the estimated number by 32. Zymotic diseases were fatal in 404 cases, the corrected average being 438. The most fatal disease in this class is scarlatina, which caused 95 deaths, being an increase of 23 on the number in the previous week. Seven deaths from this disease occurred in the sub-district of St. Paul, Dept ford, 4 in that of Lambeth Church first, 4 in that of Mile end Old-town eastern, 4 in that of Haggerstone East, and 4 in that of South Hackney. Ten children died from diph theria. Typhus caused 70 deaths. Smallpox was fatal to 11 persons, 2 of whom were adults. The mortality from diarrheol is decreasing under the influence of lower tempe rature ; last week 65 persons died from this disease. Three children died from cholera. Phthisis was fatal in 151 cases, 76persona died from bron chitis, 57 from pneumonia, and 26 from other - diseases of the respiratory organs. ' One hundred and thirty-four persons died from diseases of the brain and nervous system, 46 from diseases of the heart. Seven deaths were caused from delirium tremens, and 4 by carbuncle. Forty-three deaths were caused by accidents. Seven per sons were killed by vehicles in the streets, 8 infants were suffocated, 5 children were burnt, and 7 persons drowned. Eight persons committed suicide. A carman, aged 53, died from taking an overdose of Epsom salts. Four nonagenarians and one centenarian died during the week ; the latter, who was formerly a carman, died in St. Pancras Workhouse at the age (as stated) of 100 years. Last week the births of 1,062 boys and 931 girls, in all 2,032 children, were registered in London. In the 10 cor responding weeks of the years 1854-63 the average number (corrected) was 1,900. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30.078 in. The barome, trical reading was 30.24 in. on Monday, and decreased to 29 . 94 in. on Thursday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 54 . 5 deg., which is 0.2 deg, above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glashier). The highest day temperature was 68.8 deg. on Sunday, The lowest night temperature was 42.0 deg. on Thursday. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 26.8 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 61.5 deg; that of the lowest was 59.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 6.0 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 80, complete saturation being represented by 100. The direction of the wind was variable. The births registered in Dublin during the week ending the Ist of October were 161, and the deaths were 100, in a population of 254,808 (in 1861), spread over an area of 3,808 statute acres. The Wreck of the Brig Arthur M'Kenzie. The following is the report of Mr R. 0. Stewart, resident magistrate, principal officer of Customs at Port Waikato, who was assisted by Mr D. Simpson, marine surveyor, and Mr G. R. Breton, superintendent of water transport, and formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, as nautical asses sors, to inquire into the cause of the wreck of the brig Arthur Maenzie, at the mouth of the 'Waikato River on the Ist June, IS6I : To the Honourable the Commissioners of Customs for the Coleny of New Zealand. We, the undersigned, having met and carefully inquired inta the circumstances attending the loss of the brig Arthur 11I'Iienzie, have the honour to report as follows :—ln our opinion the loss of the vessel may be attributed to the fol lowing circumstances :-1, That the beacons of the port as at present erected are not of sufficient dimensions to ensure their being seen from the offing. 2. So the fact that, at the time of the brig rupning in, the schooner Daring happened to be ashore on the South Bank, with all sail set, and her head pointing towards the harbour, in such a position as to lead to the impression that she was a vessel entering the port. Such appears to have been the opinion of the Master of.the Arthur M`Kenzie. 3. To the want of judgment on the part of the Master of the brig in using Drury's chart of 1867 in preference to Boulton's of 1863, both of which charts were on board at the time of the wreck, and to the apparent want of attention in neglecting to keep the proper bearings on after making one of the beacons, and further to a want of discretion on his part in taking the bar (to which he was a total st ranger) with the last of the ebb tide, no sufficient reason having been shown for his anxiety to get into port. We respectfully recommend the Colonial Govern. went forthwith to carry into effect the suggestions of Capt. Fisher and Mr Todd relative to the buoys, <5.7.c., for showing the channel and anchorage, as fully detailed in the evidence. From the evidence of Mr Marshall, it would appear that the bar is liable to shift, but for the last 27 years (since 1837) the change has been so trifling that, if the outer of the large beacons now in course of preparation were erected on a slide such alterations might at all times be indicated. We have the honour to annex hereto the depositions taken before us yesterday, and to recommend the valuable infor. matien therein contained regarding this port to the atten tion of the proper authorities. Dated at Port Waikato this 9th day of Tune, in the year 1864. R. 0. STEWART. DANIEL SimrsoN-, G. R. BRETON'. A WHALE IN ROTUESAY BAY. —A few days ago a whale, estimated at some 40 or 50 feet in length, was discovered disporting itself in Rothesay Bay. During its gambols it approached within 150 yards of the shorn at Huntly Place ; but, finding itself getting into shallow water, rose to the surface through a shoal of her rings, or some other kind of fish, over which were hovering an immense flock of gulls. These latter were so terrified by the presence of such an unwelcome visitor, that they instantly dispersed, screaming in all directions. The whale gave one of his peculiar snoring blasts, then a tremendous plunge, turning the sea all around into foam, and quickly made off into deep water. It rose to the surface afterwards several times, on each occasion baring about 20 feet of its murky back: